People and places have histories which can be uncovered through a variety of sources

  • Who are significant people and events in your history?
  • How do we know what happened in the past?
  • Why are there different perspectives on history?

Myths and legends links
Animal myths and legends - http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends.htm
Greek myths - http://greece.mrdonn.org/myths.html
Maori myths and legends - http://eng.mataurangamaori.tki.org.nz/Support-materials/Te-Reo-Maori/Maori-Myths-Legends-and-Contemporary-Stories

On Thursday of week 11 we will be sharing our learning with the Kauri team and parents. You need to gather all of the learning below and have this ready to present. You can put this into a slide show, on a science board, in a scrap book, show it on your iPad and discuss it. Don't worry about how it looks, as long as you can show you have answered each of the questions on the rubric:



Family Tree

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What you need to include these details and can present this in any way either done on a computer or on paper:
  • Your family back to your great-grandparents. So your mum and dad's grandparents.
  • Include the person's first name and last name
  • Include the town or country they were born in
  • Include the year they were born
  • If you can include what their main job was

Timeline

In class you completed a timeline of the local Maori history with a buddy. This needs to be completed and have pictures within it. Put in Dropbox once done for printing.

Writing about our inquiry

In class we have practised writing autobiographies and biographies
  • Finish and publish your autobiography (draft written in your book)
  • A biography about a person in your family (not started yet)
  • Maui myth published (draft in your book, written into docs)
  • Tarragon legend (written with a buddy in a shared doc)
  • Own choice myth or legend - about a family member or local event eg: myth about the Wairoa river, legend about your Great Grandfather who went to war

Communication methods

How do we know what has happened in the past? We have started a shared slide show of ways that history is communicated and passed on. You need to pick pick 3-5 of these ways and explain them in more and explain how they have changed over time (why do we still use them or not still use them?)

Different perspectives on history

Perspectives are the same as thoughts, points of view, way of thinking, ideas and attitudes.

You need to pick some events and show the 2 or more different perspectives. You also need to explain why people have different perspectives.
This is why we think there are different perspectives:
  • people think different things
  • people believe in different things and it can influenced by friends, family, culture, hertiage
  • different cultures
  • people know different information
  • some information gets miscommunicated - chinese whispers
  • everyone is different
  • everyone has a different role / job / stake

In class we looked at different examples and did some role plays in small groups. You can pick one of these examples and explain it in more detail: